adaptability - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2004
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Luxe Redux

Cashing in on the $60 billion global luxury goods market has never been tougher — or more rewarding. Competition is keen. And consumer preferences are constantly shifting, causing the concept of luxury itself to change over time. As a result, the market’s most... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; luxury; Retail Trade

01 Jun 1997
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Blockbuster Deals

corporate gamesmanship and dizzying sums associated with M&A; activity, for the business scholar, such deals are often more interesting as windows inside organizations, revealing how they adapt and perform in times of dramatic change.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry

01 Dec 2003
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Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?

customer,” he states. Adapting and growing through change is one of the business world’s oldest mandates, but manufacturing offers the most dramatic examples of what can happen when companies succeed or fail. Ten years from now, suggests... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2019
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The One That Got Away

Rytis Vitkauskas (MBA 2008) Target Global Leaving the Party Early Over the course of 20 years in venture capital, there are many that got away (Twitter, Capital IQ, Adaptive Insights, and The RealReal, to name a few). However, one... View Details

01 Sep 2004
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Promise & Perils

part, Chinese reformers who negotiated the terms of the WTO agreement made a calculated gamble that it would provide the necessary leverage to force policy changes necessary for homegrown businesses — including SOEs and TVEs — to adapt... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

28 May 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

transaction platforms, and hybrid platforms. 3) Failure is more likely than winner-take-all. 4) Old “dogs” can learn new tricks: conventional companies can adapt to a platform world with a buy, build, or belong strategy. 5) Platforms are... View Details

01 Sep 2010
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Fair Trade

companies became increasingly concerned that while the core claims, and usually the core technologies, of brands had to be the same worldwide, the form in which such claims and technologies were delivered, whether in jars or creams, and the scents which were employed,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Chemical Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

01 Jun 1996
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Class Acts

times during Minto's childhood, she and her family had to relocate from their native Canada for extensive sojourns in Africa and Europe. As a result, she soon discovered how to adapt quickly to new surroundings. "At a new school, I would... View Details

01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era

Ghoshal, has been translated into nine languages and adapted into a video program. At HBS, he has taught General Management, International Management, and Ethics and Corporate Responsibility. He served for three years as chairman of the... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

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